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Quiz 074

DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items. Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
Which word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set?

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[001]     happy life with their two sons.  But Suu could not  _____  her history, her family, and her people in Burma.       
[002]   the more we try to remember the details, the more we  _____ .  So, why do we dream? Do dreams have any real importa    
[003] I'm going to be with the Harvey family.  Perhaps I can  _____  about Miranda's accident and feel happy at Christmas.     
[004]   warm clothes with you, a jacket and pullover - don't  _____  some warm woolen tights to keep your legs warm, girl     
[005]  'But how do we know?  She's an old woman.  Old people  _____  things easily.  Perhaps she thought about her lottery     
[006] ecret? I feel very upset about all this.'  I wanted to  _____  all about it,' Duncan said slowly.        
[007] disappear completely in only fifty years.  We must not  _____  the work of Chico and people like him.      


	
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[001]                  The third bag has bottles, from olive  _____  bottles to wine  bottles to lemonade  bottles.      
[002]   green salad he gently coats with a dressing of olive  _____ , shallots and balsamic vinegar and the baked Brie       
[003]  richest countries in the world. Its wealth comes from  _____  and gas. Most people think that Brunei is in the Mid     
[004]  the north coast of the island of Borneo. It sells the  _____  and gas to Japan, and earns $2 billion a year, that      
[005]  up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big  _____  lantern.  Grace went with him.  William Darling was      
[006]  like her father, and soft brown hair.  She carried an  _____  can in one hand, and held the side of her long skirt 
[007] working in Thailand. It was expensive, but the Chinese  _____  company, where her father worked, helped her family      


	
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[001] etter than we can. Cats can see in the dark. Birds can  _____  thousands of miles away and return to the same place     
[002] There are bugs that make you ill.  There are bugs that  _____ .  But the most famous bug in the years 1999-2000 was      
[003]        Diana was like a young bird who was learning to  _____ .  At school, she was too shy to speak in public.    
[004]         I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to  _____ . . .' That was the film's theme song, and also its      
[005]   55  million. Twenty have been built so far, and they  _____  the flags of several nations. Of all the airlines,      
[006]          we must refuel the plane because they want to  _____  to another country.  Thirdly, they say we must put      
[007]    This means that it takes only 3 hours 25 minutes to  _____  between London and New York, compared with 7 or 8      


	
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[001]      The engines started to roar, the plane started to  _____ , and after a bumpy take-off we were suddenly up in the     
[002]       and a cough and sore throat that she can't quite  _____  off, no matter what she does. It's all starting to      
[003]         very hard to forgive. Sometimes I just want to  _____  her until she sees reason. I'm sorry how it's all turn    
[004]         you suffer from deep tiredness that you cannot  _____  off, then stop jogging for a while and just walk.       
[005]                     he could see nothing.  He began to  _____  with cold, so he ran to the camp and put on a pullover     
[006]         As John read the newspaper, his hands began to  _____ , and  he had to hold the side of the table.       
[007] onderfully beautiful face, Mr Gray.  It's true.  Don't  _____  your head at me.  And there's nothing more important     


	
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[001]       Each player from the first team tries to hit the  _____  and run round a big square from corner to corner.       
[002] fferent game from European football; players carry the  _____  more than they use their feet.         
[003]    usually lamb, or 'falafel,' which is a kind of bean  _____  mixed with herbs and fried in a pan until it's crispy   
[004]     In the early morning of 30 June 1908, a very large  _____  of fire came from the sky and hit the Tunguska river   
[005]            although her family had greatly enjoyed the  _____ , the Bingley sisters were eager for these particular         
[006]             Now you will remember that everyone at the  _____  was wearing strange cloaks and masks, which belonged     
[007]               A Hungarian, Laszlo Biro, made the first  _____ -point pen in 1938.  In 1944 the American Army bought       


	
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[001]              In fact, one of the major reasons for the  _____  of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been       
[002]               But its only venture so far has ended in  _____ . It sold pounds 38,000 worth of ads to cover a Cheste     
[003]      of the British throne. She had tasted triumph and  _____ : Childhood friendship with a prince whose elder brothe    
[004]                     it blames external factors for its  _____ . Norman Lamont was always going on about a world reces
[005]  English teaching, which was too low for most, and the  _____  of one tutor to set an end-of-term exam - but they      
[006]  adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his  _____  to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to     
[007]           Actually the Atlanta campaign was a military  _____ .  Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of     


	
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[001]   died, part of me died with her.  Now she lives in my  _____ .  I can't forget her and will never forget her.      
[002] everybody has dreams, but some people just have better  _____  for them than others. Every one and a half hours       
[003]  last line of her story is,  "He exists now only in my  _____ ." Later, she throws the Heart of the Ocean into the     
[004]        Coretta Scott King and her children keep King's  _____  alive.  In January 1993, Dexter Scott King wrote, "My     
[005]   it was the search for facts that calmed my mind.  My  _____  and my diary gave me enough facts for this story.  
[006]       Disneyland for our holiday - we have a wonderful  _____  of the place. I strongly recommend it, if you ever hav     
[007]    I would like to have something more of her than the  _____  of a few kisses.' 'I will try and do something,s   


	
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[001]  rison, were lifers. The former lasted four years, the  _____  five.)    This Labor Day weekend we present,      
[002] omforted. He could not manage the former or expect the  _____ ; they had nothing to give to each other. The omission     
[003]  nation of legal analysis and literary references. The  _____  are chiefly to the life and work of Henry Fielding,      
[004]     of black people.  One large religious group is the  _____  Day Saints, or Mormons, who live mainly in Utah.       
[005]   was still in Mrs. Meeker's employ at the time of the  _____ 's  death. (No additional five thousand for each year     
[006]      of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the  _____  decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun. The call  
[007]   a quick lecture on crime and punishment,  mostly the  _____ , including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of    


	
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[001]    Governments have spent millions of pounds trying to  _____  its secrets.  So are the stories of aliens and UFOs     
[002] public Enquiry, when government officials would try to  _____  the truth.  Scientists and lawyers would speak on  
[003]     your beauty will go with it.  Then you'll suddenly  _____  that your life is empty - there will be nothing to      
[004]         in any way that I please.  I will teach him to  _____  the fire of youth, and  love, and life.'  The conversa     
[005]      he became more and more afraid that someone would  _____  his secret.  For weeks he tried not to go near it,      
[006]  Switzerland.  I was interested in facts.  I wanted to  _____  everything about the world around me.  The world, to      
[007] elp us understand other planets.  Perhaps we will even  _____  a planet with life on it, like our planet, Earth.       


	
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[001] introduced us. She doesn't know how I feel. I have her  _____  and telephone number, but I don't know what to do.
[002] cards, and some lottery tickets. Mr Murphy checked the  _____  in the wallet and immediately posted it back to its
[003] new what he had to do. He took the bus to Mr Dupont's   _____  and knocked at the door. The door was opened not by Mr
[004]   this evening? L:  Yea, of course. I'll give you the   _____ . Now, it's 35, Chestnut Avenue,  Walton. How'll you be  
[005]  said one of the men in white.  'Where?'  'What's your  _____ ?'  '26 Third Avenue West...  Why?'  'Get in the
[006]    outside of the envelope was really the inside.  The  _____   on  the outside was new.  Then I knew that it really
[007]   Villefort, as Dantes took his hat.  'Whose  name and  _____  are on the letter? ' Noirtier, Heron Road, Paris.'